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Speaker 1: Music Saved Me.

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Speaker 2: Music one percent has healing powers.

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Speaker 3: What I do every night before I go to sleep,

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Speaker 3: I put on meditation music where it's just like, oh,

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Speaker 3: like ambient music, and my day is so stretched out

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Speaker 3: that I put that on. My heart rate drops. I

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Speaker 3: feel relaxed, I feel calm. And it's the same way

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Speaker 3: when you hear a heavy metal song and the energy

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Speaker 3: just spikes in the room. And that's something that's so

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Speaker 3: beautiful because you know, in fifty years or one hundred years,

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Speaker 3: or when I'm dead and gone, I will still have

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Speaker 3: my energy and my presence on this earth through my music.

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Speaker 1: This is the Music Saved Me Podcast, and I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Glynn Hoffman. Today we have a guest whose vibrant persona

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Speaker 1: comes shining through in his music, but his journey hasn't

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Speaker 1: been easy. Chad Tepper is an alternative artist who truly

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Speaker 1: has been saved by music. Welcome to the show. Tell

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Speaker 1: everyone who you are and why music is so important

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Speaker 1: to you.

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Speaker 2: Hey, guys with something. Name is Chad Tepper.

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Speaker 3: I'm an artist from Orlando, Florida, and music is so

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Speaker 3: important to me because it is the lifeline and the

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Speaker 3: blood to my heart. It is the thing that's keeping

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Speaker 3: my heart beating and keeping my mind present.

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Speaker 2: And music has always been something for.

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Speaker 3: Me where you know, I'm in school being bullied or

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Speaker 3: the corner of the bleachers with my pack of CDs

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Speaker 3: that I got from the library, and I'm listening to,

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Speaker 3: you know, all all this different types of music to

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Speaker 3: escape my reality. And I think music is one of

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Speaker 3: the most beautiful things because let's say you're having a

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Speaker 3: horrible day, nothing's going right. You put on a song

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Speaker 3: and that one song can make you smile, can make

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Speaker 3: you happy, you know, or if you're driving and you

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Speaker 3: hear a sad song, can make you cry. It's just

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Speaker 3: all those emotions. For music is so beautiful and for me,

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Speaker 3: music is the greatest and most purest thing on this earth.

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Speaker 1: Do you think music has supernatural healing powers?

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Speaker 2: One music has healing powers.

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Speaker 3: What I do every night before I go to sleep,

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Speaker 3: I put on meditation music where it's just like, oh,

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Speaker 3: like ambient music, and my day is so stressed out

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Speaker 3: that I put that on. My heart rate drops, I

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Speaker 3: feel relaxed, I feel calm. And it's the same way

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Speaker 3: when you hear a heavy metal song and the energy

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Speaker 3: just spikes in the room. And that's something that's so

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Speaker 3: beautiful because you know, in fifty years or one hundred years,

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Speaker 3: or when I'm dead and gone, I will still have

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Speaker 3: my energy and my presence on this earth through my music.

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Speaker 3: Like who else can say that, you know, when I'm

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Speaker 3: still affect people and make them happy or sad or

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Speaker 3: angry or whatever I'm gonna, you know, put out in

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Speaker 2: I can affect people years and years later.

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Speaker 3: You see it all the time with people listening to

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Speaker 3: like Elvis Presley and Queen and those people are gone,

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Speaker 3: but they live on forever and they continue to help people.

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Speaker 3: Think about how many people listen, okay to Elvis Presley

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Speaker 2: Isn't that insane? Isn't that insane?

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Speaker 3: His music will play on forever, And That's where I

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Speaker 2: I want to help people forever. So it's it's fucking awesome.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember the first time you realize that music

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Speaker 2: I did? I did.

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Speaker 3: I realized at a very young age when I would

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Speaker 2: I've always been that guy where.

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Speaker 3: I'll have so I had a Walkman when I was

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Speaker 2: Music just makes life better.

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Speaker 1: You are so honest about what music means to you.

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Speaker 1: How are you able to be that way?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a lot of people are really afraid

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Speaker 2: And for me, I'm like.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, if that's an answer, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: No, that was a great answer. What do you want

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Speaker 3: When when I was a kid and I was homeless,

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Speaker 2: Wanted to to it. I was very ashamed of it.

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Speaker 3: I went so I was homeless for seven years in Orlando, Florida.

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Speaker 3: We lived in cars and tents, side of the road motels.

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Speaker 3: And I think the biggest thing that people need to

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Speaker 2: Horrible people, or junkies or drunks.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of homeless people that are just put

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Speaker 2: It's a great life, man, it's a great life.

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Speaker 3: And we we need to we need to look at

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Speaker 2: But when when.

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Speaker 3: When I tell you this, you're gonna lose your mind.

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Speaker 3: My dad's side of the family is extremely extremely rich billionaires,

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Speaker 3: I think I have a better mind space, and you know,

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Speaker 2: And for me, the little things in life mean so much.

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Speaker 2: Where you know, you.

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Speaker 3: Can't judge buy a book a book by its cover,

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Speaker 3: not not everybody's the same, you know, everybody's an individual

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Speaker 1: Talk to us a little bit about how it makes

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Speaker 1: you feel when your music really connects with someone you

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Speaker 3: Uh. It makes me feel like I'm actually making a difference,

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Speaker 3: and it makes me feel really good. I recently started

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Speaker 3: having people come up to me and being like, Oh,

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Speaker 3: I love your music.

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Speaker 2: This song's really good. It really helped me.

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Speaker 3: Or I'll get a comment on a music video saying, wow,

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Speaker 3: this song I felt it in my chest.

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Speaker 2: You know, like this song really hit me.

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Speaker 3: And there's so much music out there that did that

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Speaker 3: to me growing up that if I can do that

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Speaker 3: for one person, it's so cool.

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Speaker 2: It's it.

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Speaker 3: This is why you do what you do. You know,

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Speaker 3: you want people to appreciate the art you're making. So

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Speaker 3: it's a great feeling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Chad Tepper is a man who loves his craft. His

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Speaker 1: story truly embodies the spirit of the Music Saved Me podcast.

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Speaker 3: If you like.

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Speaker 1: Music Saved Me, If you like music saved me. Please

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. You'll be glad you did.

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Speaker 1: Lin Hoffman, thanks for listening.